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589] FROM ANDREW OF ASOLA 591 meus suauissimus ac charissimus—quem, quae illius virtus fuit mirifica, non possum non nominare sine multa praefatione honorum ; quem, inquam, Erasme, quae illius humanitas fuit, non sine lachrymis semper nomino—: tum in Plauto quanta vsus est industria, in conglutinatore Latinae Syrenis. Hos vellem aedere studiosis omnibus. Patere igitur me vti hoc tuo beneficio. Oro te per maiestatem nominis Latini, cuius tu semper fuisti studiosissimus, ad me mittas si quicquam est qui sit codex antiquus; quo possimus vti nostri codicis quasi magistro, aut si quicquam est aliud apud te quod possit nostrum munus expolire. Nihil omittere volumus ad rem conficiendam cum accurate tum eleganter, quo bonorum omnium in nos studia augeantur. Vale. Filii mei te multa salute impertiunt, quibus tuo nomine s.p, dixi, or o salutem dicunt. 590. From NICHOLAS SAGUNDINUS. London. Deventer MS. gI, f. 96 v°. 22 June 1517. LB. App. 143. [Written after the receipt of Ep. 584 in London, and forwarded by More in July (Ep. 601) together with Epp. 591,2 and probably Ep. 593. ] SINGVLARI REIPVBLICAE LITTERARIAE ORNAMENTO ERASMO ROTERODAMO NICOLAVS SAGVNDINYS S. D. P. QVANQVAM me nouum tironem conantem ad te, doctissimorum hominum doctissimum, aliquid in praesens scribere vel pudor quidam meus pene subrusticus vel meae (quae nulla est) doctrinae conscientia vel altitudo tui ingenii maximusque tui nominis splendor absterret 589. 45. enim (n.) ante re add. amanuensis postea, quasi perperam omissum : deceptus nimirum illo quod sequitur, enim (n.) te. 49. c in quicquam incerta : deformawit LB. 55. Aldi post Filii scripsit amanuensis et delewit : inclusit LB perperam. 589. 44. Plauto] In his preface to the first Aldine edition, July 1522, Fr. Asulanus refers to the work of correction done by Aldus and Erasmus, and states that their text formed the basis of his edition. 46. Latinae Syrenis] This title is applied to Valerius Cato, the grammarian, as a master of poetry; in a couplet preserved in Suet. Gram. II. Here apparently ‘metre’; cf. 1. 40n. and Lond. xxi. 4, LB. 689. 55. Manutius] (c. 1506-1568) became a priest at Asola; see Renouard, pp. Some: Antonius] (1558 or 9) became a bookseller and printer at Bologna. Paulus] (12 June 1512 or 1513 — 6 April 1574) became almost as famous as his father in his conduct of the Aldine press, of which he took over the management in 1533. He also won fame as a scholar, especially for his work on Cicero. In 1561 at the request of Pius rv he removed to Rome, to undertake the printing of a series of the Fathers. See Renouard. 590. 2 pudor] Cf. Cic. Fam. 5. 12. I.
